Shiites and Kurds set to grab Iraqi presidency and premiership

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050212/wl_mideast_afp/iraqpolitics&cid=1514&ncid=1480


"Looking at the partial results, it appears that the Sistani list will have more than 50 percent and that Kurdish parties will come second," said Sunni politician Saad Abdel Razzak.


"They should therefore share the posts of president and prime minister between themselves."


Partial results announced on Monday showed that the Shiite coalition backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had obtained 2,244,237 out of 4,366,843 votes counted, or 51.4 percent of ballots cast.


It could even improve this score when the rest of the polling stations in remaining Shiite-dominated southern provinces are counted, securing around 140 out of the National Assembly's 275 seats.

[expatriot]

1. The recount will fix this.... we are "recounting" the votes to make sure..

Sistani's list gets less than 50% and that Allawi's list is closer to second.

[UL_Approved]

2. Its up to 4.17 at 6 votes

I helped it along with a couple of votes. :kick:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. day 13 still no results, WTF?

This non-story quotes partial results from MONDAY, which would be 2/7, or 8 days after the election completed. This is now 2/12, post election day 13, and still we have no vote totals and no results. WTF?

Oh, and as I can't help myself, here is some counting math:

votes counted: 4,366,843
days to count: 8
ballots/day: 545,855
ballots/hour: 68,232 (assume 8 hour day)
ballots/minute: 1,137

So they have like what, 25 people counting ballots?

WTF?